Letters on corpulence puzzle our compilers

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Assailed on all sides by luscious displays of mince pies, roast potatoes and
general Christmas excess, I’m grateful to Marianne Fry for a seasonal
reminder of where it could all too easily end.

Marianne complains about a favourite and familiar word being disallowed by the
setters of the Polygon in Times2. “When I was a rather faddy small girl at
school in the 1940s, I found the food grim and used to push it around my
plate. This caused authority to accuse me of banting, which I was told
derived from a diet devised by William Banting, an obese Victorian